test drive

[gordon519]

how does one test drive a shp in this game?, i want to make sure im not waisting my time grinding for particular ships

[Torchfire]

You can rent a Texas for 3 day by downloading a free DLC from the store.
This, however, is fairly pointless, since you can get a Texas for free by using an invite code when you first start playing.

Otherwise, you really can't test drive ships here.
But you can download the Test Client and play that (when it's running, which is every month or so on average). In it, you often get access to high tier ships which you can play for the testing duration. Plus you can get nice rewards for your main account there as well.

[Ryuu]

Yeap, on Public Test Client you can try out any tech tree ship available in the game easily while the test server is up.

[lockwoodx]

Rentals aren't free.

[Ryuu]

Except there are no paid rentals here.

[gordon519]

Originally posted by Torchfire:

You can rent a Texas for 3 day by downloading a free DLC from the store.
This, however, is fairly pointless, since you can get a Texas for free by using an invite code when you first start playing.

Otherwise, you really can't test drive ships here.
But you can download the Test Client and play that (when it's running, which is every month or so on average). In it, you often get access to high tier ships which you can play for the testing duration. Plus you can get nice rewards for your main account there as well.

do you think they could do that with all the premium ships? or no

[Ryuu]

Originally posted by Gordon519:

Originally posted by Torchfire:

You can rent a Texas for 3 day by downloading a free DLC from the store.
This, however, is fairly pointless, since you can get a Texas for free by using an invite code when you first start playing.

Otherwise, you really can't test drive ships here.
But you can download the Test Client and play that (when it's running, which is every month or so on average). In it, you often get access to high tier ships which you can play for the testing duration. Plus you can get nice rewards for your main account there as well.

do you think they could do that with all the premium ships? or no

This Texas is really for allowing newbies to do tasks :)

But seems some people like it enough to buy later, so maybe WG decides to add some more someday. Maybe not. But even then it won't be all premiums, just some of most popular maybe.

Anyway, participate in the next Public Test, because the game is mostly about tech tree ships anyway :) And you can reach any T10 ship in several battles on PT(less if using boosters and FreeXP conversion). The currency on PT account is separate and is reset on each test, so spend as much as you want.